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The Disney/Marvel film scored $24.7 million in its second weekend, to defeat the Adam Sandler flick, which came in at a disappointing $24 million.
Ant-Man has now scored a 10-day total of $106 million.
Minions finished third with $22 million, giving it $258.5 million in 17 days, while
Trainwreck came in fourth with $17.2 million and
Southpaw opened with a solid $16.5 million for fifth place. The YA adaptation
Paper Towns scored just $12.5 million, for sixth.
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The head of a local union representing crew members that worked on Alejandro G. Inarritu's
The Revenant during a brutally cold Canadian winter said the New Regency movie went to "the outer edge of safety" to get the perfect shot. At the same time,
The Revenant producer New Regency insisted on-set safety was closely followed throughout the Canadian shoot.
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Actor has shored up what may be his next starring role, in an adaptation of bestselling, critically-acclaimed 2014 book,
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson. The story, based on the author's own real-life, centers on his days as a young, idealistic, gifted lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative - a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need, and one of his first cases.
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The comedy show's current season will be its last, co-creator and star Keegan-Michael Key confirmed on Friday. Key clarified that it was his and co-creator Jordan Peele's decision to end the show and not Comedy Central's, where it airs. Peele took to Twitter to comment on the show's end, telling followers to “Don’t miss the last 8 episodes” and “Love u.”
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Arteta who most recently directed
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, will helm the adaptation of Jennifer Niven’s YA novel. Niven, founder of online literary teen magazine Germ, will write the script. Demarest Media will finance and produce the picture alongside Mazur/Kaplan, who brought the package to them.
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It’s not often that a premium cable network cancels a series after just one season, but such is the fate of this show, as the cable net has confirmed the death of its first-year comedy. Created by playwright Shalom Auslander, show was originally intended as a starring vehicle for the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman, with Steve Coogan stepping after Hoffman’s death. Harsh critical reaction and low ratings, however, combined to ring the show’s death knell.
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Studio has picked up
Red Shirts, an original college football comedy that was scripted by
Veep stars Timothy Simons and Matt Walsh. No plot details were released. On the show, Simons plays White House liaison Jonah Ryan while Walsh plays Mike McLintok, the VP’s Director of Communications. The acclaimed HBO series recently completed its fourth season.
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Producer Brian Grazer said in April that the show would return for 17 more episodes on Netflix, but in a more recent interview, he said that creator Mitch Hurwitz is just now putting together his writer’s room and the deals are still being made with the show’s cast, as well as between 20th Century Television and Netflix. He also talked about “retrofitting” the number of episodes to what Hurwitz and the writers come up with for the season’s arc.
(COL)
In December 2003, Mel Gibson showed an audience an unfinished version of
The Passion of the Christ. Someone asked where he could go from here and, shielding his eyes symbolically from the spotlight, he said there was no way he could return to the types of movies he’d made before exploring the final hours of Joshua of Nazareth’s life. If anything,
Funny People was Adam Sandler’s
Passion, but it didn’t come with the same sort of obvious shift.
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It’s inevitable that a scene you love will be deleted from the finished film, most often for reasons of time or money instead of story. Learning to deal with this reality is part of becoming a true professional.
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